Seaman pows by the french in africa

[cappy]

lewis you cant argue with the figures they are there in black and white ......of course there are more french killed in the first war ...it was fought in there own country ....even a dog will fight for his bone ...the second world war was a different matter they packed up effed of to the sunny south and carried onlike normal .....as for the poor population ..i say with a grin ......my old man for what he was worth left two kids in france ...that we know of .....as he always said in his cups they could have been more ...he enjoyed the effin more than the fighting.....just as a matter of interest are you and the other louis the same bloke your views are very much the same ie a slightly commie leaning ...a disrespect for the leader of the country ...a great need to seemingly want a gallon out a pint pot .....getting rid of our beloved royals .....and a need to cuddle up to the loony left ....surely not a fancy for dianne ......will the real louwies stand up ....cappy

[j.sabourn]

He was worse than a communist he was a warlord pure and simple. JWS

[j.sabourn]

#1... Arthur I can remember in the 50"s going through the Suez canal a french troopship carrying legionaires out to then French Indo China, now Vietnam, jumping over the side as didnt want to go, this was I think before Dien bin Phu. Must have known they were on a losing wicket. Cheers JWS

[cappy]

As I say Cappy if all those thousands who didn't even make it off the beaches could come back and see Britain in league and very low on the ladder of the E.U. They would be a bit disgusted methinks. Died for nothing springs to mind. JWS.

###mind as far as traitors are concerned while thousands of our country men were dying with many other allies on the beaches of normandy why did the welsh miners go on strike for more money on D day...winston should have shot them as traitors ......cappy

[Keith at Tregenna]

In 1944 underground miners were earning £5 per day and their wage tribunal refused to raise piece rates. When the Government announced that the national average industrial manual wage had reached £6 10s, miners came out on unofficial strike in South Wales, Kent, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Durham, and Scotland - some 220,000 in South Wales and Yorkshire alone. With the invasion of France looming, the press attacked the miners.

[cappy]

##they should have shot them

In 1944 underground miners were earning £5 per day and their wage tribunal refused to raise piece rates. When the Government announced that the national average industrial manual wage had reached £6 10s, miners came out on unofficial strike in South Wales, Kent, Lancashire, Yorkshire, Durham, and Scotland - some 220,000 in South Wales and Yorkshire alone. With the invasion of France looming, the press attacked the miners.

[Keith at Tregenna]

That would not have helped a war effort ?

[Captain Kong]

How much was a Private in the British Army paid at Normandy apart from being mutilated or killed.????? not even any Overtime rate.
Brian

[cappy]

##5 pounds a day ....you must be bloody joking ...my mother with 2 kids got 26 shillings a week .....you have again pressed the wrong button got forbid you ever flew an jumbo or were in charge of anything serious lol cappy

[Keith at Tregenna]

.. The argument that a strike would let our soldiers down was countered by men who had brothers and sons in the forces who, so they claimed, had urged them to fight and maintain their customs or privileges. They argued that they must retain something for those absent ones to come back to, while the suggestion that we should wait for further negotiations was swamped by the reply that we had already waited a long while...”

In fact the Government was compelled to intervene, restored differentials, and the miners won the highest minimum wage in Britain. Their average earnings ranked 81st in 1938, but rose to 14th after the strikes.